Biography
Jonathan Banks (born January 31, 1947) is an American character actor in film and television. Banks dropped out of Indiana University to join a touring company as a stage manager. He went to Australia with the company and stayed on working in theatre there. In 1974, he moved to Los Angeles and performed on stage before picking up bit parts on television. Probably his best-known movie roles are in two films starring Eddie Murphy: 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop. In 48 Hrs. he plays a character who...
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Catwoman: Hunted
2022
as Roman Sionis / Black Mask (voice)
Catwoman's attempt to steal a priceless jewel puts her squarely in the crosshairs of both a powerful consortium of villains and the ever-resourceful I...

The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
as Self
Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan and other cast members, producers and crew share stories and footage from the making of "El Camino."

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
as Mike
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

The Wolf: True Alpha
2018
as The Fixer
HP's latest entrant in "The Wolf" series once again pits Slater's character against The Fixer.

Redbad
2018
as Pepijn
In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon again...

Incredibles 2
2018
as Rick Dicker (voice)
Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three child...

The Commuter
2018
as Walt
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those ...

Mudbound
2017
as Pappy McAllan
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight ...

Term Life
2016
as Harper
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performi...

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
2015
as Composite Superman (voice)
The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3: Magical Friendship surrenders DC Comics' multitude of Super Heroes and Super-Villains to the demented whims of ...

I'm Brave!
2015
as Fire Engine
He's a big red engine with a siren, a horn, a tank full of water, and a whole lotta hose! He's a good-lookin' fire truck — and he's brave, too — but w...

Horrible Bosses 2
2014
as Detective Hatcher
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a ha...
Advanced Television Production - 5 Days, 2 Scripts, No Sleep
2014
as Self
The writer's room during the production of the fifth season of Community struggles with time while the show is being filmed. This behind the scenes do...
Advanced Television Production - 5 Days, 2 Scripts, No Sleep
2014
Thanks
The writer's room during the production of the fifth season of Community struggles with time while the show is being filmed. This behind the scenes do...

Authors Anonymous
2014
as David Kelleher
When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these lovabl...

Bullet
2014
as Carlito Kane
Danny Trejo plays 'Bullet' a tough cop who takes the law into his own hands when his grandson is kidnapped.

Identity Thief
2013
as Paul
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the ...

Watercolor Postcards
2013
as Ledball
A Hollywood actress and a former NFL star strive to save a troubled Texas town while bonding over their shared love of a very special 10-year-old girl...

Proud American
2008
as Mr. Moretti
Proud American presents five powerful singular stories all of which magnify the themes mentioned above. Our film is an emotional, inspirational, and v...

Reign Over Me
2007
as Stelter
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing t...

Murder 101: College Can be Murder
2007
as Det. Frank Chambers
Criminology Professor Dr. Jonathan Maxwell does not believe that Professor Archer Coe died of a heart attack, so he hires his friend Mike Parker to in...

Puff, Puff, Pass
2006
as Lance
Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a ...

Circadian Rhythm
2005
as Trejo
Attractive 24 year old Sarah Caul finds herself in a bare white room with no idea who she is or how she got there. Quickly she becomes caught up in a ...

Dark Blue
2002
as James Barcomb
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his ...

R.S.V.P.
2002
as Walter Franklin
A psychology student invites a group of his friends and teacher to a drug and alcohol-fueled party where he plans to murder them all.

Proximity
2001
as Price
When William Conroy (Rob Lowe), a former college professor, is sentenced to life in prison for vehicular manslaughter it seems his life is over. But w...

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
2001
as Milos Drubnik
After settling in the tiny Australian town of Walkabout Creek with his significant other and his young son, Mick "Crocodile" Dundee is thrown for a lo...

Downward Angel
2001
as Herod
Assassin John Hunter must infiltrate the notorious Guild and find the man responsible for his parents death.

Millennium Man
1999
A U.S. intelligence agent's death is averted when his brain is transferred into the billion dollar "Advanced Design Anatomical Man," or ADAM, a techni...

Trash
1999
as Judge Callum
Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two ...

Foolish
1999
as Numbers
'Foolish' Waise is a talented comedian with a hard-edge trying to make it in the comedy clubs in LA while his brother is a hard-nosed gangster trying ...

Outlaw Justice
1999
as Sheriff Conklin
In the tradition of THE WILD BUNCH and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN comes this fast paced, action filled western with unforgettable performances by an all st...

Let the Devil Wear Black
1999
as Satch
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.

Dollar for the Dead
1998
as Col. Skinner
In this tribute to the old time spaghetti westerns with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-making thrown in, Emilio Estevez assumes Clint Eastwoo...

A Thousand Men and a Baby
1997
as Father O'Riley
An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusiastically to provide necessary medical care, but th...

Dark Breed
1997
as Joseph Shay
Captain Saxon, an agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew membe...

Harvey
1996
as C.J. Lofgren
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall ...

Flipper
1996
as Dirk Moran
Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes ever...

Wiseguy
1996
as Frank McPike
Vinnie Terranova is back, foiling a staged kidnaping of computer mogul Paul Callendar's son in order to probe possible inside information brokering. M...

Last Man Standing
1995
as Doc
A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores...

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
1995
as Scotty
A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to ...

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
1994
as Shelby Valentine
An experienced member of Texas Rangers, a special police unit, arrives to compete in a pistol shooting tournament, but so does a hitman who's planing ...

Shadow of Obsession
1994
as Trevor Keegan
A female professor is taunted and stalked by an emotionally disturbed student, and then, when he disappears, is accused of killing him, although no bo...

Body Shot
1994
as Simon Devereaux / Blake Donner
Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.
Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
1993
as Joe Scoman
The 1960s. Bobby Kennedy is in power in Washington. Marilyn Monroe is a legendary film star. For years there has been widespread speculation and rumor...

Boiling Point
1993
as Max Waxman
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Th...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993
as Dr. William Shell
The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that ...

Blind Side
1993
as Aaron
A couple visits Mexico to scout a new location for their furniture manufacturing business and hit a cop with their car on the way back stateside. Real...

There Goes the Neighborhood
1992
as Handsome Harry
A dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist, who heads to the New Jersey suburbs to find it. Two prisoners overh...

Freejack
1992
as Mark Michelette
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a...

Don't Touch My Daughter
1991
as Charles Ryter
A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls...

Honeymoon Academy
1989
as Pitt
A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dir...

Pin
1988
as PIN (voice)
Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with h...

Cold Steel
1987
as Iceman
On Christmas Eve, Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't...

Wiseguy: Pilot
1987
as Frank McPike
This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a “wise...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
1987
as Luke Dickson
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.

Downpayment on Murder
1987
as Det. McKenzie
About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a hired killer.

Who Is Julia?
1986
as Jack Bodine
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lowe...

Armed and Dangerous
1986
as Clyde Klepper
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defen...

Assassin
1986
as Earl Dickman
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials...

The Fifth Missile
1986
as Ray Olson
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is ...

Beverly Hills Cop
1984
as Zack
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, ...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
as Lizardo Hospital Guard
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

Nadia
1984
as Gheorge Comaneci
Story about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast and how she was discovered by Belya Karolyi. Nadia received 7 perfect 10'...

Gremlins
1984
as Deputy Brent
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unlea...

Murder Me, Murder You
1983
as Janos Saracen
Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.

The Invisible Woman
1983
as Darren
In a research lab, a scientist's pet chimpanzee mixes up an invisibility formula. A young woman accidentally drinks the solution and becomes invisible...

48 Hrs.
1982
as Algren
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Frances
1982
as Hitchhiker
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Gangster Wars
1981
as Dutch Schultz
The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny)...

Stir Crazy
1980
as Jack Graham
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing...

Desperate Voyage
1980
as Louis
A modern-day pirate hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on board, and sends the passengers to the bottom of the ocean. But his current captiv...

Rage!
1980
as Resident #2
In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.

Airplane!
1980
as Gunderson
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

She's Dressed to Kill
1979
as Rudy Striker
A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing off the models.

The Rose
1979
as Television Promoter
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.

Ike
1979
as 1st Sergeant
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal rel...

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
1979
as Pato
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of he...

Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
as Marine
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside...

The Cheap Detective
1978
as Cabbie
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of...

Coming Home
1978
as Marine At Party
In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
1977
as Buck
Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous vi...

The Girl in the Empty Grave
1977
as Courtland Gates
The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, starts appearin...

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
1977
as Michael
In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past and the present. Alexander's parents send him away f...

The Macahans
1976
as Woodward
Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the C...

Linda's Film on Menstruation
1974
as Johnny Stanton
This is an educational short released by the Los Angeles Public Library explaining what to expect when you get your first period.